Be modern
collectors, museums
if you have old paintings
do not despair
Retain your memories
but detourn them
so that they correspond with your era.
Why reject the old
if one can modernize it
with a few strokes of the brush.
This casts a bit of contemporaneity
on your old culture.
Be up to date
and distinguished
at the same time.
Painting is over
You might as well finish it off
Detourn (détournez)
Long live painting. (Asger Jorn)

Be modern collectors, museums if you have old paintings do not despair Retain your memories but detourn them so that they correspond with your era. Why reject the old if one can modernize it with a few strokes of the brush. This casts a bit of contemporaneity on your old culture. Be up to date and distinguished at the same time. Painting is over You might as well finish it off Detourn (détournez) Long live painting.

Asger Jorn

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